Four killed as quake rocks Pakistan

Haris Darvesh in Karachi

At least four people, including a four-year-old girl, are reported to have been killed
and six others were injured on Friday when an earthquake struck many cities in Pakistan,
doctors and officials said.

Two people died in the Pakistani city of Hyderabad when a
three-storey building collapsed. "We are still measuring the scale of the quake
but it continued for around 12 seconds at 08:40 PST (03:40 GMT),"
meteorological official Abdul Rasheed said.

Reports on Pakistani television say the quake measured 6.2 on the
Richter Scale and was felt throughout the country, including the major
cities of Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar.